Mage crossroads

[Saridu]

So I played a paladin to Lv 24 (on normal) before I was bored. (The whole move royal griffins, phantom, summon guards x2 ,send in the max morale Trex, sit back and watch the fireworks and let ressurect skill return my fallen griffins)

For me the real fun of this game lies with the mage. So I restarted and after a couple of tries I found probably the perfect start for me. Ancient amulet on Debir, then Pendant of iron will on Scarlet, Verona has given me Paladins, Demonologists, Royal Griffins and Evil beholders (For me it doesn't get any better than that.) I also can buy Phantom and Demon Portal

My new mage is only lv 11 (on normal again) with lv2 chaos, lv1 distort, lv1 higher magic and level 2 learning I think.

I have around 30 magic runes (Just finished 50 battles with the ancient amulet) but only five might runes.

So the question, do I go for level three distort or level three chaos first?

Hypnosis was a godly spell in TL, it only ran out of usefullness in the labyrinth and demon portal was okay I suppose. The problem is might runes are quite rare for a mage and it may take me some time before I have enough to buy both. What worries me, in my Paladin game I had all but two islands unlocked and I still had yet to find Fire Rain and just found Ice snake on my last island (Reha I believe) so I have to work with what I have for now.

Is Chaos 3 plus summoner 3 for demon portal the way to go or is Distort level three with Phantom and Hypnosis better?

Agh! I hate choices